Second Harvest Food Bank seeks support to land grant

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Apr 4, 2013 at 9:02 AM

WINSTON-SALEM | Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC, which provides food for several Davidson County agencies, is hoping the public can help them click their way to a grant from Walmart by voting for them in the "Fighting Hunger Together" initiative, a national campaign where money is awarded to organizations that receive the most votes for their programs that target childhood hunger.

WINSTON-SALEM | Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC, which provides food for several Davidson County agencies, is hoping the public can help them click their way to a grant from Walmart by voting for them in the "Fighting Hunger Together" initiative, a national campaign where money is awarded to organizations that receive the most votes for their programs that target childhood hunger.The public will decide which organizations will receive the grants through a Facebook voting campaign. Winning organizations will be those that garner the most votes. Second Harvest Food Bank will use the grant to fund mobile pantry food deliveries that will provide more than 100,000 meals to families with children in communities with extremely high rates of childhood hunger."Across our 18-county service area, more than 1 in 4 children face uncertainty over whether they will have enough to eat, and it's even worse in many of our more rural counties," said Clyde Fitzgerald, executive director for Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC. "This Mobile Pantry Distribution program will provide families with enough food for two meals a day for six weeks during the summer when school is not in session and children do not have access to the free and reduced price school meal program."Those interested in supporting this effort should visit the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC Facebook page at facebook.com/Food.Bank.NWNC for details. The public is encouraged to vote once each day throughout April.